.11 access points and fingerprint localization on off-the-shelf devices. More specifically, we adapt standard fin-gerprint localization to be scalable and heuristically detect malicious access point in a distributed fash-ion, through gossip protocols. Evaluation is per-formed both on large-scale software

Recent advances have resulted in queue-based algorithms for medium access control which operate in a distributed fash-ion, and yet achieve the optimal throughput performance of centralized scheduling algorithms. However, fundamental performance bounds reveal that the “cautious ” activation rules

Embodied evolutionary robotics is a particular flavour of evo-lutionary robotics, where the evolutionary optimization of behaviours is achieved in an on-line and distributed fash-ion (Watson et al., 2002). The question asked in this paper is: does population size play a role in the evolution

Increasingly data on the Web is stored in the form of Semantic Web data. Because of today’s information overload, it becomes very important to store and query these big datasets in a scalable way and hence in a distributed fash-ion. Cloud Computing offers such a distributed environment with dynamic

-alone processors or projects that use a collection of workstations to solve a. single problem in a distributed fash-ion, DASH uses the workstation as a helper, or agent, to access network services and to interact on behalf of the user with programs running on one or more remote host processors. The DASH prototype

. Our key approach is to use a divide-and-conquer framework and efficiently compute answers in a distributed fash-ion. We represent a given graph as a collection of dense vertex-clusters with their inter connections. Each vertex-cluster maintains certain infor-mation related to internal random walks

to construct hierarchies in a top-down fash-ion, and show that our method is much more efficient than bottom-up methods. We also show that top-down hierarchy construction is a better choice when administrative policy constraints are imposed on hierarchy formation. 1

or by environmental factors such as noise and power loss. The set of processes may be partitioned into subsets that cannot communicate with each other; algo-rithms in which all such subsets behave in a similar fash-ion, regardless of size and identities of processes, are called self-similar algorithms. Algorithms

present a prototype distributed control system for building energy management that uses wireless sensor network-class nodes. Using protocol inde-pendent multicast, sensors and controllers are allowed to ef-ficiently share information in a distributed peer-to-peer fash-ion. Our prototype system achieved

ion--Control) model [Coutaz, 1987]. Although the display and input hardware may be encapsulated in a single object or group of objects, its effects are felt in the architectural design of virtually every user-interface component. In a similar fashion the hardware that supplies contextual